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TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday announced an NIS 10 billion ($2.8 billion) aid package to help the Israeli economy make it through the coronavirus crisis.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a mandatory 14-day quarantine for all international travelers entering Israel in what two private airlines described as a “death blow” for Israeli private aviation.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday discussed collaborating on the fight against coronavirus, including the development of a home testing kit. 

Netanyahu has advised Israelis to adopt the namaste pose traditionally used by Indians instead of Western handshakes, to stop the coronavirus spread.

At the risk of interfering, the Trump administration should warn Israel not to undermine its claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East.

TEL AVIV – As many as 100,000 Israelis are currently in self-quarantine amid increasingly dramatic measures imposed by Israel in an effort to curb the coronavirus outbreak, including restricting entry from certain European nations, banning large gatherings, and barring IDF soldiers from travelling overseas.

JERUSALEM – Thousands of Israeli soccer fans and high school students were instructed to go into quarantine after being exposed to coronavirus as the total of confirmed cases in the country climbed to 15 on Wednesday.

TEL AVIV – The Blue and White party on Wednesday confirmed it was working on getting a law passed that would prevent Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as an indicted prime minister, from leading the country.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party gained almost 30 percent of the votes tallied so far by Tuesday afternoon, indicating a major victory that well surpasses its results in the previous two Israel elections.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greeted jubilant supporters after the Likud’s decisive come-from-behind win, calling it “a victory against all the odds.”

Donald Trump will win a larger share of Jewish voters in 2020 than he did in 2016, predicted Republican Jewish Colaition Director Matt Brooks.

TEL AVIV – Israeli voters took to the ballots Monday for the third time in a year with the hopes of breaking a political deadlock and seeing the formation of a 23rd Knesset. 

Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) responded on Sunday’s broadcast of CBS’s “Face the Nation” to remarks by Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon, who addressed Sanders calling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “reactionary racist.”

Danny Danon, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, declared Sunday that Democratic Party presidential frontrunner Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is an “ignorant” fool, adding: “We don’t want him in Israel.”

TEL AVIV – Coronavirus could prove to be the wild card tipping the election outcome one way or another as a new poll reveals some 400,000 eligible Israeli voters may choose not to over fears of exposure. 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party’s poll numbers have risen as Bernie Sanders has emerged as the Democratic frontrunner.

The roots of the split go back decades, but especially to the Iraq War, when Democrats, fueled by the anti-war movement, began to consider Israel a political enemy.

TEL AVIV – Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Wednesday blasted presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders over his “shocking” declaration during Tuesday’s Democratic debate that he would consider moving the U.S. embassy from Jerusalem back to Tel Aviv if he won the elections. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party has inched ahead of rival Blue and White in major polls taken days ahead of the national election. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed Israel would do whatever is needed to prevent an economic crisis spurred by the coronavirus outbreak.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said Tuesday during the Democrat debate in Charleston, South Carolina, that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “a reactionary racist.” The audience applauded.

TEL AVIV – The coronavirus could cause up to a one percent drop in Israel’s GDP, according to Finance Ministry estimates released Monday, as the epidemic starts to pummel the global economy.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Netanyahu on Monday said coronavirus, which saw its second confirmed case among Israelis, is not a good enough reason to postpone the national elections set to take place next week.

TEL AVIV – Amid fresh rocket barrages from Gaza on Monday, Prime Minister Netanyahu warned terror groups the IDF has new “surprises” in store if the rocket fire continues.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned against attempts to tamper with the electoral process ahead of next week’s poll through the dissemination of false reports about coronavirus. 

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to erase the criminal records of tens of thousands of Israelis caught in possession or using cannabis.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday challenged his main political rival, Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz, to a rare election debate ahead of the March 2 elections. 

TEL AVIV – The Gaza-based Hamas terror group has warned Israel it would respond to any assassination attempts against its leaders by sending barrages of rockets towards Tel Aviv, Hebrew media reported Thursday.

All of “impotent” Israel’s military positions are now within range of Iranian attack, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Major General Hossein Salami, warned Tuesday.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli government is “rightwing and racist” and the U.S. cannot just support the Jewish state while ignoring the Palestinians, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said Tuesday during a CNN town hall event in Las Vegas.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that an Israeli plane made a historic first flight over Sudan only two weeks after he met with the Arab state’s leader in Uganda.

JERUSALEM – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his newly tapped candidate for finance minister, Likud MK Nir Barkat, on Sunday unveiled a wide-ranging financial plan that includes more hospitals and cheaper housing and food, set to be put into place if Likud wins next month’s elections. 

TEL AVIV – Israel’s economic growth last year exceeded all predictions, boding well for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who hopes his stewardship of the Jewish state’s strong finances will give him the upper hand against main political challenger Blue and White’s Benny Gantz, Bloomberg News reported. 

TEL AVIV – The United Nations on Wednesday published its long-anticipated blacklist of more than 100 Israeli businesses that operate in West Bank settlements.

TEL AVIV – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called on main political rival Blue and White leader Benny Gantz to fire two senior advisers for past comments comparing President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler.

TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman on Sunday expressed his opposition to any “unilateral” decision by Israel to annex Jewish settlements in the West Bank, saying such a move would endanger the recently unveiled peace plan.